Top 200 Personal Growth Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

102. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

103. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

— Jim Rohn

104. “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

— William James

105. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Anonymous

106. “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play well. If you play well, they pay well.”

— Deion Sanders

107. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

108. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs

109. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

110. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

111. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger

112. “There are always people who will be better at something than you are. You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.”

— Charlie Munger

113. “Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.”

— Imam Ali

114. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

— Zig Ziglar

115. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

116. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”

— Tony Robbins

117. “Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.”

— Bob Proctor

118. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

— Albert Einstein

119. “Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.”

— Farrah Gray

120. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

121. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

122. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

123. “Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.”

— Jim Rohn

124. “The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.”

— Charlie Munger

125. “What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.”

— Charlie Munger

126. “Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.”

— Charlie Munger

127. “In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.”

— Charlie Munger

128. “Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.”

— Charlie Munger

129. “You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been.”

— Maya Angelou

130. “If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.”

— Thomas Jefferson

131. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”

— Tim Notke

132. “Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.”

— Jerry Rice

133. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

134. “If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

— Azim Premji

135. “Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.”

— Charlie Munger

136. “Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.”

— Tony Hsieh

137. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

— Sheryl Sandberg

138. “A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.”

— Jillian Michaels

139. “Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.”

— Tony Robbins

140. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ”

— Jim Rohn

141. “If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

142. “Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.”

— Ken Jennings

143. “You become what you think about most of the time.”

— Brian Tracy

144. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

145. “Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.”

— Bob Proctor

146. “Education is the great engine to personal development.”

— Nelson Mandela

147. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

— Margaret Fuller

148. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

149. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier

150. “If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”

— Napoleon Hill